Songoftheday 2/21/16 - Sometimes life can make you crazy it can really put your body to the test, you try so hard to make sure everything goes right and you find you've only wound up with a mess...

"Love Will Save The Day" - Whitney Houston
from the album Whitney (1987)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #9 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 11

Today's song of the day comes from Whitney Houston, whose sophomore album Whitney had spun off four consecutive #1 pop hits in the U.S. with "I Wanna Dance (With Somebody)", "Didn't We Almost Have It All", "So Emotional", and "Where To Broken Hearts Go". This was after her three chart-toppers on her debut album, giving her a total of seven in a row, a record in the pop era. With Arista deciding to send out a fifth single from Whitney, the "dance hit-ballad-dance hit-ballad" pattern continued with "Love Will Save The Day". Written by Toni C. and produced by remixing king Jellybean Benitez, the percolating spiritual number skirted the sonics that kept freestyle dance music going strong in the urban areas of the country. But without a music video (perhaps they weren't prepared to send a fifth single out), MTV exposure wasn't there to help, though an enhanced remix did get fans that already had the album out to buy the single...

"Love Will Save The Day" broke Whitney's streak of #1s, but did become her ninth top-10 pop single in America in August of 1988. The song did reach the top of Billboard's Dance Club Play chart. It also crossed over to #5 on their R&B chart, and #10 on the Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") radio list. Internationally, the single reached the top ten in the UK (#10), Canada (#8), Ireland (#8), Spain (#9), the Netherlands (#6), and Belgium (#8), while just skirting the top-40 in Germany (#37), and stopping at #48 in France.

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Here is Whitney performing at the Olympics in 1988...

...and at the Nelson Mandela Birthday Celebration concert that same year....

The Morales/Jellybean house mix helped bring the single to the top of the dance chart in August of 1988...

Back to Whitney live in 1994 in Brazil, where the band drew from the remix version...

Up tomorrow: A former "go-go" boy goes to the zoo.